Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 Social media users probably won’t read beyond this headline, researchers say
By Ashley WennersHerron
“A new study of 35 million news links circulated on Facebook reports that more than 75% of the time they were shared without the link being clicked upon and read”
@AmazingMeagen Thank you for your insights.
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For my newsletter I decided on Ghost as a platform. This post from its co-founder will help you understand why:
The consensus in the replies seems to be to allow anyone to follow your account. My follow-up question to that would be if that is the case, why do some accounts manually control who follows them?
@paperisiili Thank you for commenting and providing your opinion.
@Flominator Thank you for the information.
🔴 🇬🇧 Southerners among worst at spotting fake English accents, study finds
Ian Sample
“Are southern English accents simply easier to fake than others? Goodman thinks not. Instead, he sees cultural evolution at work. A person’s accent is a signal of their social identity, and the history of tensions across the UK could have brought northerners, Scots and others closer together, making them more attuned to outsiders.”
#UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #Accents #English #Language #Research #News
@JohnMFlores Hubris is not a praiseworthy attribute, whether in human or machine.
@seandro Welcome! Hope you enjoy your time here. A decentralised social media network can take a while getting used to.
@JohnMFlores I used another LLM and found that it would signpost books that I could not find.
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Who lived in Flanders during the 7th century, and where did they come from? New DNA research from Merovingian graves in Koksijde has uncovered surprising insights into the region’s diverse ancestral origins.
https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/early-medieval-flanders-dna/
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Discovery of a 2000-year-old fig reveals Ireland’s ancient international food trade https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2024/november/14/discoveryofa2000-year-oldfigrevealsirelandsancientinternationalfoodtrade/
🔴 🌊 Global mean sea levels have increased by around 25 centimeters since 1880
Hannah Ritchie
"There are two key drivers of sea level rise. First, water expands as it gets warmer. Second, ice on land — in the form of ice sheets and glaciers — melts and adds water to ocean basins.
Both of these processes have accelerated due to climate change."
#Data #DataViz #Ocean #Sea #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange @environment
🔴 Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift
"Our findings suggest that selective events in European prehistory, including from the onset of animal domestication, have been obscured by neutral processes like genetic drift and demographic shifts such as admixture."
Pandey, D., Harris, M., Garud, N.R. et al. Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift. Nat Commun 15, 9772 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53852-8.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Biology #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Europe #Academia #Academics @science @biology
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Some people can visualize things perfectly in their mind’s eye, while others can’t.
Here’s how your brain visualizes scenarios that you’re not actually looking at with your eyes, and why it can be so helpful to improve this skill:
https://theconversation.com/what-is-mental-imagery-brain-researchers-explain-the-pictures-in-your-mind-and-why-theyre-useful-233766
#science #neuroscience @psychology
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Look at that swirl!
Satellite view of the bomb cyclone headed for the Pacific Northwest 🌀💥
@undefined @Flominator How do you determine 'fishy'?
@Flominator I suppose that is one way of looking at it.
@JPK_elmediat @AmazingMeagen What is the point of following then?
#QOTO: since the new update, I have noticed there is a new auto-delete feature. Are there any other features that I may have missed?
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
